Zürich Metropolitan Area
Europe needs its own work infrastructure. We’re building it. For years, European enterprises have relied on US platforms like Jira and Confluence to run critical workflows. That worked - until sovereignty, AI, and infrastructure became strategic questions. Work is the operating system of every organization. Whoever owns that layer shapes how work gets done. So we’re building sovara: a sovereign, AI-native European alternative to Jira and Confluence. Modern architecture. API-first. Built for the AI era. Sovereign by design. We’re not starting from scratch. sovara is built on rready’s platform - already used by companies like BMW, Tetra Pak, and Implenia across 10+ countries. Two products, one foundation: → rready innovate → rready work (sovara) Both built and hosted in Europe. Both fully under your control. My journey started in 2016 with Swisscom KICKBOX, enabling employee-driven innovation in large enterprises. After working with hundreds of intrapreneurs and building software used globally, one insight became clear: Innovation is not the product. Workflow infrastructure is. And Europe doesn’t own that layer. That’s what we’re changing. If you believe Europe should build its own foundational enterprise technology - let’s connect. 📩 www.rready.com
As a 𝐜𝐨-𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫, I played a key role in evolving 𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲.𝐚𝐢 from a traditional SaaS platform into the 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐈-𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞. Our journey started with helping companies 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐬, but we soon realized the future was 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧—where employees don’t just submit ideas but are actively guided by AI-driven workflows that drive real business impact. This shift from 𝐒𝐚𝐚𝐒 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐚𝐚𝐒 redefined how organizations tap into their employees' full potential, making innovation more autonomous, scalable, and results-driven.
At 𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲.𝐚𝐢 we help companies 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞-𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 by tapping into their most valuable asset: their people. Our 𝐀𝐈-𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐚𝐒 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 make corporate innovation 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥. Are you in 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 and looking to drive real impact? Are you in 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 & 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 and want to upskill employees through hands-on innovation? Or just curious about 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧? 👉 Let’s connect and chat!
Kickbox.org is the non-profit association and collaborative community of Kickbox practitioners worldwide.
While having established a strong intrapreneurship program called 'Kickbox' at Swisscom, other companies asked us if they can use our material and software and profit form our experience. As a result, we decided to develop our internal program into a product, which we can bring to the market. Following the Lean Startup Method we created a product consisting of whitelabelled gamified toolboxes, an online platform and a strong peer community. We set out to find Early Adopters and marketed it to the Swiss market. By now, we could gain more than 15 corporates working with us - in Switzerland and abroad. We aim to create an intrapreneurship movement around GETKICBKOX which enables bottom-up innovation in companies. Check it out: www.getkickbox.com
Swisscom Kickbox, the bottom-up intrapreneurship program at Swisscom. The program fosters the internal innovation culture and empowers employees to experience “Lean Startup” methodologies by validating their own startup ideas. Employees get a project budget, work time, an innovation booklet, visiblity on an online platform and access to internal experts and external service providers. The program was piloted at Swisscom in 2015. Since then, we have professionalized it much further and developed an online platform which perfectly fit to the Kickbox program adding value such as automatization, visiblity for projects and much more. The program has been very successful at Swisscom leading to more than 14 new products/ services or valuable cost reductions while having a real transformational impact on our employees. Other companies got more and more interested in this program and therefore, we decided to develop our internal program into a product, which we can bring to the market. Following the Lean Startup Method ourselves, we created a product consisting of whitelabelled toolboxes and the online platform. We set out to find Early Adopters and marketed it to the Swiss market. By now, we could gain more than 15 corporates working with us - creating a real intrapreneurship movement around GETKICBKOX. As a result, we founded GETKICKBOX.COM
- Swisscom Kickbox, the bottom-up intrapreneurship program at Swisscom. The program fosters the internal innovation culture and empowers employees to experience “Lean Startup” methodologies by validating their own startup ideas. Employees get a project budget, work time, an innovation booklet, visiblity on an online platform and access to internal experts and external service providers. The program was piloted at Swisscom in 2015. Since then, we have professionalized it much further and developed an online platform which perfectly fit to the Kickbox program adding value such as automatization, visiblity for projects and much more. The program has been very successful at Swisscom leading to more than 10 new products/ services or valuable cost reductions while having a real transformational impact on our employees.
Executing an education module for the CAS course "Chief Digital Officer" at the SIB.
The "Lean Start-up Academy" is a new course at ETH Master level that puts YOU at the center of the entrepreneurial action. You will validate a startup idea together with other students and use the Swisscom Kickbox framework with a project budget of CHF 1'000.- It's project based learning and you will DO things rather listen to concepts and theories. That means, high levels of commitment and energy are required to take part in this course and move your entrepreneurial ideas forward.